Welcome to: The PhD Program Land, Environment, Resources and Health (LEHR)

Agripolis Campus, LEAF Dept. Legnaro 3th November, 2014

Outline

!  LERH scientific staff and research topics !  Your rights !  Your duties !  Learning activities !  LEHR administrative staff !  The web site and other information sources

The LERH scientific staff (Council Members)

Coordinator: Davide Pettenella Vice-coordinators: Tommaso Anfodillo and

Marco Borga The Council Members: •  Vasco Boatto •  Raffaele Cavalli •  Marco Carrer •  Andrea Curioni •  Giancarlo Dalla Fontana •  Vincenzo D'Agostino •  Edi Defrancesco •  Dario Friso •  Luigi Galletto •  Paola Gatto •  Rossella Ghisi •  Alberto Guarnieri

•  Emanuele Lingua •  Mario Lenzi •  Giovanna Lomolino •  Marcello Lotti •  Lorenzo Marchi •  Francesco Marinello •  Lucio Montecchio •  Gabriella Pasini •  Mario Pividori •  Luca Rossetto •  Luigi Sartori •  Laura Secco •  Paolo Semenzato •  Paolo Tarolli •  Tiziano Tempesta •  Mara Thiene •  Antonio Vettore •  Augusto Zanella

The Land, Environment, Resources and Health (LERH)

PhD Program: a large set of research topics!

•  Forest pathology and ectomycorrhizal dynamics •  Carbon balance of forest ecosystems •  Landscape ecology •  Forest hydrology, water cycle, GIS and Geomatic •  Soil, water and air pollution •  Wetlands, constructed wetland and phytodepuration facilities •  Silviculture and forest management •  Technologies and machineries in agriculture and forestry •  Water and fertilization management with precision agriculture •  Forest bioenergy •  Agrifood sector competitiveness •  Enology •  Food quality •  European agricultural policy and European rural development •  Marketing of agrifood and forest products •  Forest governance

Our role as teachers (Richard Baker & Peter Kanowski, 2009)

!  To share our passion for learning

!  Guides on the side – not sages on the stage

!  Establish clear goals and learning outcomes !  Generate interest & provide explanation !  Active engagement of students !  Help you learn to learn !  Concern & respect for students & your learning !  Provide appropriate assessment & feedback

Some of our principles for effective teaching and learning

Your rights !   You have the right to carry on independent, supervised advanced

research; you have a supervisor for your thesis work and two revisers from the PhD program

!   You have the right to a working position with full access to the research facilities

!   You are strongly recommended to have an experience abroad (3 months minimum - a right but also a duty!), normally starting from the 2nd year; for your staying abroad you have a (limited) extra compensation

!   You can access all the services ordinary provided to the UNIPD students (housing and canteen, sport facilities, health care, psychological support, ombudsman, …)

!   Beside the grant, you have some research funds to be spent in the 2nd and 3rd year (at least 10% of the grant have been allocated)

Your rights: your representatives

!  You have the right of being represented in the Council meetings

!  4 representatives have to be elected soon from the students of the XXIX and XXX batches

Your duties !   Your main duty is to produce good pieces of scientific

research in the field of science you have agreed with your supervisor and that has been approved by the PhD Program

!   You will work full time at the Program. Your physical presence at the university in requested

!   You must remain at the academic siege at each stage of your Learning program in the 1st year

!   You have to prove your scientific productivity updating your profile in the web site U-GOV. Instructions on how to create and update your profile are in the Handbook

An individual working plan for the 3 years, agreed with your supervisor, has to be presented and formally approved by the PhD Council; you will receive a request in 2 months time.

The plan will describe:

a. Your research project b. Your individual learning program

A template will be available The learning program is based on 3 type of activities "

PhD program procedures: first step

Learning activities

!  Compulsory courses of the 1st year

!  Courses defined on a voluntary basis and agreed with your supervisor

!  Internal seminars, workshops, conferences, …

A final assessment of your learning level will be requested

Your 3-years learning and research program should be approved by your PhD Council

The compulsory learning program Total Credits: 14 ECTS

Course “Choose, design, write and present PhD research projects and results” 16 hours; 2.5 ECTS 1-3 December, 2014 Teachers: Davide Pettenella; Edi Defrancesco; Laura Secco and Alessandro Leonardi Department TESAF – Room 2040- AGRIPOLIS Course “Applied Statistics: use of R software” 24 hours; 3 ECTS 23-27 February, 2015 Teacher: Matteo Dainese Pentagono – Computer room Course “Scientific Writing in English” 24 hours; 3 ECTS Spring 2015 Teacher: Mark E. Olson, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico Department TESAF – Room 2040, 2° Floor – Legnaro PD – AGRIPOLIS Course “Ethics and Science” 24 hours; 1.5 (Introduction) + 1.5 (Monographic lectures) = 3 ECTS Spring 2015 Teacher: Barbara de Mori Agripolis Course “English” FULL placement test + Course “English – B1” or Course “English – B2” 30 hours; 4 ECTS To be defined Teacher: CLA

The elective learning opportunities

Italian language for foreigners 24 hours; 3 ECTS Centro Linguistico di Ateneo Università di Padova

Corso di “Cultura in Ecologia”, Giugno 2015; San Vito di Cadore, 4 ECTS Centro Studi per l’ambiente Alpino Docente Coordinatore: Prof. Tommaso Anfodillo

Summer School “Analisi e governance dei servizi ecosistemici” Capracotta (IS), Luglio 2015, 4 ECTS Docente Coordinatore TARS: Prof. Davide Pettenella Organizzata da: Dottorato internazionale in Management and Conservation Issues in Changing Landscapes (Dipartimento DIBT dell’Università degli Studi del Molise) Dottorato internazionale in Management - Innovation, Sustainability and Healthcare (Università S. Anna di Pisa) Dottorato Territorio Ambiente Risorse e Salute (Università di Padova) CURSA - Consorzio Universitario per la Ricerca Socioeconomica e per l’Ambiente

Teaching material: The Moodle platform

https://elearning.unipd.it/scuolaamv/

!  At the end of each year you have to present a written report approved by your supervisor, that will be also orally presented and formally approved by the PhD Council

!  The template for the Report are available on the LERH web site

!  Focus of the reports (beside presenting your learning activities, participation to events, networking, …): !  1st year: the state of art in the research topic you

have selected !  2nd year: the methodological approach(es) #

staying abroad; field data collection !  3rd year: the research results

PhD program procedures: following steps

!  Written documents: !  Beginning 1st year (before 2 months from the start): you

learning and research plan !  At the end of each year: a written report approved by your

supervisor, that will be also orally presented and formally approved by the PhD Council

!  The thesis (tomorrow welcome meeting) !  Oral presentations:

!  At the end of each year: a summary of your activities presented to the PhD Council

!  Thesis presentation (tomorrow welcome meeting) !  (take advantage of every other event: LERH internal meeting

and seminars, workshops, …)

PhD program procedures: summary

If you have any administrative problems or issues to discuss, contact:

Antonella Tosatto Dept. TESAF (3rd floor) Tel. 049 827 2685 E-mail: antonella.tosatto@unipd.it

Sara Ziggiotti (foreign students – Dept.) Dept. TESAF (2nd floor) Tel. 049 827 2693 E-mail: sara.ziggiotti@unipd.it

LERH administrative staff

Other contact persons: Ileana Dainese (travel remboursement) Dept. TESAF (3rd floor) E-mail: ileana.dainese@unipd.it

Marco Bellonzi (logistics) Dept. TESAF (2nd floor) E-mail: marco.bellonzi@unipd.it

Antonio Cecchinato (Computer Services) Dept. TESAF (2nd floor) E-mail: antonio.cecchinato@unipd.it

Susanne Kloehn (foreign students - Campus) Erasmus Office and International Relations Tel. 049 827 2538 E-mail: erasmus.agripolis@unipd.it

LERH administrative staff

The Web site http://www.tesaf.unipd.it/en/research/doctoral-degrees-phd-programmes

The contents of the web site (1/2)

About LERH

Governance Coordinator and Deputies

PhD Board

Minutes

Teachers and students Supervisors

Staff

Students XXX Cycle and XXIX

Former PhD students

Research topics

How to apply (19 come modello) General rules

Call for foreign students

Grants

Teaching Compulsory and elective courses

The contents of the web site (2/2)

Documents PhD Guide •  PhD student research and learning program •  PhD student’s year evaluation – Procedures and deadlines •  Joint or Double PhD - Procedure for the PhD discussion

Procedure for the PhD discussion •  Visiting foreign institutions (15)

Forms Research reporting •  PhD student research and learning program •  1st year report: " vd. file 1st year report LERH •  2nd year report: “in progress” •  3rd year report: “in progess” •  Research synopsis writing: Quality evaluation (for the students): -­‐  PhD student’s year evaluation -­‐  PhD students’s lecture evaluation form " Antonella Quality evaluation (for the teachers): -­‐  Scheda giudizo Relatiore 1° anno -­‐  Scheda giudizo Relatiore 1° anno: -­‐  Relatiore 1° anno: “in progess” Other forms •  Ethical guides) •  Joint or Double PhD – Request form •  Reimbursement Authorization form •  Authorization for staying abroad •  Reimbursement form •  Travel form •  Request for prologation

PhD Handwook

Safety norms ? (in Italian)

Links Departments participating to the program

DAFNE http://www.dafnae.unipd.it/en/ DSCTV: http://www.dctv.unipd.it/en/

FONASO Program http://fonaso.eu

Associated partner universities

www.unipd.it/en/

On-line resources

Study in Italy http://www.study-in-italy.it

… and now it is your turn!

!   Introduce yourselves

!  Describe what you have studied previously and where

!  Describe your field of expertise

!  Describe your draft research project idea

The students of the XXX batch

Name Grant typology Supervisor 1 Andrighetto Nicola Grant Dept. Pettenella Davide 2 Destro Elisa Grant L. 170 Borga Marco 3 Pianezzola Luisa Grant CARIPARO Borga Marco 4 De Blasi Fabrizio Grant UNIPD Dalla Fontana Giancarlo 5 Pacheco Solana Arturo Grant UNIPD Carrer Marco 6 Pastorello Roberta Grant UNIPD D’Agostino Vincenzo 7 Boscaro Davide Grant Dept.to Sartori Luigi 8 Liubachyna Anna Grant UNIPD Secco Laura 9 Bernard Martino Grant UNIPD Gregoretti Carlo 10 Cillis Donato Grant UNIPD Sartori Luigi 11 Perlotto Chiara Grant UNIPD D’Agostino Vincenzo

Enjoy your PhD experience!